coredns/middleware/file
Michael Richmond e34280e7af Clean up remove caddy refs (#139)
* Changed reference to Caddy over to CoreDNS

* Removing references to caddy

* Fixed misleading error message to reference coredns

* Cleaning up references to caddy

* Adding clean and deps targets

Muscle memory is resulting in "make clean" commands.

* Adding test target to makefile

* More "Caddy" cleanup
2016-04-28 19:07:44 +01:00
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tree middleware/file: Support delegations (#124) 2016-04-16 16:16:52 +01:00
closest.go Add middleware/dnssec (#133) 2016-04-26 17:57:11 +01:00
closest_test.go Use qname/qtype for lookups 2016-04-02 17:49:13 +01:00
delegation_test.go More delegation tests 2016-04-16 16:24:15 +01:00
dnssec_test.go CNAMEs targets should be in answer section. 2016-04-16 17:55:11 +01:00
ent_test.go Rename middleware/testing (#103) 2016-04-11 07:56:38 +01:00
file.go Add middleware/dnssec (#133) 2016-04-26 17:57:11 +01:00
file_test.go Clean up remove caddy refs (#139) 2016-04-28 19:07:44 +01:00
lookup.go CNAMEs targets should be in answer section. 2016-04-16 17:55:11 +01:00
lookup_test.go CNAMEs targets should be in answer section. 2016-04-16 17:55:11 +01:00
notify.go Reload zone when a write is detected (#122) 2016-04-15 14:26:27 +01:00
nsec3_test.go Drop NSEC3 zone (#120) 2016-04-14 07:33:03 +01:00
README.md Reload zone when a write is detected (#122) 2016-04-15 14:26:27 +01:00
reload_test.go Add middleware/dnssec (#133) 2016-04-26 17:57:11 +01:00
secondary.go middleware/file: Support delegations (#124) 2016-04-16 16:16:52 +01:00
secondary_test.go middleware/file: Support delegations (#124) 2016-04-16 16:16:52 +01:00
wildcard_test.go Rename middleware/testing (#103) 2016-04-11 07:56:38 +01:00
xfr.go Reload zone when a write is detected (#122) 2016-04-15 14:26:27 +01:00
xfr_test.go Support outgoing zone transfers 2016-03-28 18:23:17 +01:00
zone.go middleware/file: Support delegations (#124) 2016-04-16 16:16:52 +01:00
zone_test.go Add AXFR test 2016-04-06 22:29:33 +01:00

file

file enables serving zone data from a RFC-1035 styled file.

The file middleware is used for "old-style" DNS server. It serves from a preloaded file that exists on disk.

Syntax

file dbfile [zones...]
  • dbfile the database file to read and parse.
  • zones zones it should be authoritative for. If empty the zones from the configuration block are used.

If you want to round robin A and AAAA responses look at the loadbalance middleware.

TSIG key configuration is TODO; directive format for transfer will probably be extended with TSIG key information, something like transfer out [address...] key [name] [base64]

file dbfile [zones... ] {
    transfer from [address...]
    transfer to [address...]
    no_reload
}
  • transfer enables zone transfers. It may be specified multiples times. To or from signals the direction. Addresses must be denoted in CIDR notation (127.0.0.1/32 etc.) or just as plain address. The special wildcard "*" means: the entire internet (only valid for 'transfer to').
  • no_reload by default CoreDNS will reload a zone from disk whenever it detects a change to the file. This option disables that behavior.

Examples

Load the miek.nl zone from miek.nl.signed and allow transfers to the internet.

file miek.nl.signed miek.nl {
    transfer to *
}